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Borrowed Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken…
- Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
- As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The…
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